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Ron Henderson
Middle Tennessee State University
Physics teacher education is taking center stage at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), and being selected as one of three new comprehensive PhysTEC sites brings added momentum to the cause. MTSU is home to 24,000 students in the geographic center of Tennessee. The physics department graduates 5.4 majors each year, with many of these students continuing to graduate school in physics, astronomy, engineering, and medical physics. It would be safe to say that very few of our majors have become secondary teachers. In fact, over the past fifteen years the number of students that completed a major in physics and became endorsed to teach high school physics has totaled, well, zero. This is not a number of which we are proud; this number has become one of the primary motivators for our new emphasis in physics teaching.
Our Path
Where to Start?
Our department is pouring energy and resources into three primary areas this year to grow our teacher education efforts: programming, marketing, and assessment. The building blocks for our program are in place, but many of the specifics are being developed this year. New courses that were approved last year need to be fully designed, and further work on existing courses needs to happen as well. We are partnering with a marketing consultant to teach us how to reach more students from our local public schools as well as targeting existing science majors at our university. In addition, we are taking a serious look at how to measure the level of success from our efforts – both by counting graduates, interacting with them to glean information about their preparedness in content and pedagogical knowledge, and documenting attitudes toward science and teaching.
Hitting the Ground Running (Thanks, PhysTEC)
Program implementation is moving ahead quickly, thanks in large part to our partnership with PhysTEC. PhysTEC has provided mentoring and advice through both one-on-one discussions and workshops that involved other PhysTEC institutions. PhysTEC funding is making many of our curriculum improvements possible. Our program implementation involves developing new courses and re-designing existing courses, combining efforts of the education and science colleges through the MTeach initiative, and adding PER expertise to our department. The curriculum reform efforts began with the development of three new courses in the physics and astronomy department this year. In Physics Licensure, students will work in a combination seminar and independent study fashion to prepare for the Praxis II content exam. This course gives our future teachers the opportunity to compile a wide range of content knowledge from many physics courses and gain confidence in their ability to pass the licensing exam. Another first-time offering this fall is Concepts and Applications of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Our approach in this course is to emphasize a conceptual understanding of thermodynamics by focusing on seminal ideas, with exercises designed to force the students to think about how they would teach the material. Our third new course for the year is The Teaching of Physics. This course has the two goals of introducing students to PER literature through a study of "what works" in physics education, and giving students the opportunity to put those ideas into practice. The seminar portion of the course will give our future teachers an overview of research-proven pedagogies in place in university classrooms, as well as successful programs used in high schools, including the Modeling pedagogy from Arizona State University. The second component of the course will require students to work as teaching assistants in introductory physics courses that employ inquiry-based techniques. Further curriculum improvements will happen during the summer of 2011 when our calculus-based physics sequence will be re-designed to employ an active learning environment with content and techniques borrowed from other successful programs. With these changes to our curriculum, we hope to create an improved environment for future physics teachers.
Add a Dose of UTeach ...or MTeach
Our involvement with MTeach is most evident in what has historically been the education component of a science teacher's program of study. The lines between what is education and what is science are now blurred, and the MTeach curriculum reflects this fact. Many of the MTeach courses will be taught by high school science and mathematics teachers that have joined the university faculty (Teachers in Residence (TIR) if you speak PhysTEC, or Master Teachers if you are more familiar with UTeach). Our department is particularly excited about the early teaching experience courses known as Step I and Step II. These one credit hour courses offer potential high school teachers a low-stress opportunity to experience the public school classroom as a teacher. Students will be involved first in observation and later as active participants in the classrooms of top elementary and middle school mentor teachers that will model best practices for the science classroom. We hope this experience will widen the pool of prospective high school teachers, especially among freshmen and sophomores. Students in a number of majors are required to take a year of physics, and quite a few become very interested in the department after that experience. However, because students tend to put off taking physics until their junior or senior years, they are often too close to graduation to consider a change in major after finding how great physics can be. The TIRs will also be involved in recruitment through visits to science classes on the university campus, and interacting with students in the physics department. We plan to leverage our physics TIR by inviting them to be full participants in all aspects of the department. The final piece in our implementation plan is the addition of a PER faculty line in the department. We are thrilled to have gained permission to fill a permanent tenure-track faculty line with an expert in PER. (Anyone interested in the position can apply online at mtsujobs.mtsu.edu, and contact the search committee chairman Dr. Vic Montemayor.
Who Knew?
The second major area of emphasis for the year will be in marketing. Students that become involved in our department through classes or research projects tend to have positive experiences and be drawn to the physics major/minor. Evidence of this effect comes through an analysis of the first major declared by eventual physics B.S. recipients. Not many started as physics majors, and our graduates have often changed majors to physics after a positive experience with physics and astronomy faculty. We want to learn how to engage and interest students that have not experienced our department. This may include reaching out to high school juniors and seniors, and finding a way to connect to current university students that do not yet have concrete career plans. MTSU will be partnering with marketing consultant John Rice this year to help find a way to "get the word out" to each of these populations. John has experience designing marketing plans for other physics departments, and we want to tailor a message for our student base and our region of the country. Of course, having a great tag line is not a silver bullet for an advertising a program. We know that a successful program will involve a lot of work on our part, and we are ready for the challenge and excited at the prospect. Soon there will be on-line ads, banners, t-shirts, flyers, and other advertisements to inform others about initiatives in our department. We are currently trying to secure funding for a new science building to hold all the new majors.
The Proof is in the Pudding
Assessment may not seem to have the same importance as program implementation or marketing, but we are convinced that careful attention to what our majors say and do can provide an avenue for constant improvement. Our assessment plan begins with the straightforward task of administering nationally accepted conceptual content exams at the beginning, and again at the end, of the first semester of physics. Since the declared major of students in the introductory sequence is not a good indicator of their eventual degree, the test is given to all students in both the algebra- and calculus-based sequences. After the introductory sequence, much of the follow-up data is collected from declared majors during their senior year: by again administering conceptual content exams, by requiring participation in a scientific attitudes survey, and by evaluating students' opinions regarding the quality of the department and their perceived level preparation for their career of choice. Another means of assessment centers on the required capstone thesis course and subsequent presentation. All physics majors must complete a year-long research project in their area of interest that culminates with a presentation to the faculty and students of the department. Many majors work with research faculty in our department, while others participate in REU programs throughout the country and abroad. Students in niche areas, such as physics teaching and medical physics, are allowed to conduct projects linked to their area of expertise. A physics teaching candidate might study an aspect of our inquiry-based pedagogy that would include quantitative assessment, or could produce inquiry-based lesson plans for topics that have not received widespread coverage in the literature. During the thesis presentation students are evaluated by department and visiting faculty. To further quantify performance on the capstone project, a rubric is being designed to facilitate measurement the quality of each written thesis. We hope that enough information can be collected from these sources to allow a critical look at our program and suggest avenues for improvement.
Let's Start Cooking
Ron Henderson is chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Middle Tennessee State University where he is co-PI of a NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship grant and PI of the MTSU PhysTEC grant.


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So, a year ago I adopted this laundry detergent recipe. It says it will last a whole year and it really does! And I love it!! I just made a few changes this year. So, here is my updated recipe:
Here are the ingredients.
And here are the things I changed:
First of all, I miscalculated the size of the canister I'd need, so I upgraded to this larger size. I really love these canisters from {Target} and I use them to store flour and sugar as well.
The other thing I changed about my recipe is that instead of using a normal cheese grater to grate the soap, I decided to try a zester to get the pieces as small as possible. It worked like a charm. I set up my bucket and grater like this and my third time doing this was definitely a charm.
The reason I made this change is because sometimes my washer had a hard time disolving the larger soap shavings, especially on a cold water cycle. The smaller pieces seem to dissolve much easier.
Once the soap was grated, I just threw all the rest of the ingredients into the bucket and mixed them all together. And it rubbed my hands raw...so next time I'll be wearing gloves for that step.
Anyway, the result is a wonderfully beautiful detergent that looks and smells like summer.
I ended up using the smaller canister to store my Oxiclean White Revive which I add to loads of white laundry in place of bleach. I really love that stuff. It does the trick without ruining anything!
There you have it! All in all, this laundry detergent costs about $20-$30 to make, and it lasts for a whole year!! That's a pretty good deal, if you ask me.

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Now that she's done playing Elizabeth Taylor, maybe Lindsay Lohan should try out for Blondie.
The actress demonstrated once again just how nice it is when she keeps busy doing normal things--like yukking it up on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," for instance!--rather than make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Lohan donned a platinum wig, shades and the requisite all-white outfit for Fallon's "Let Us Play With Your Look" bit--you know, where he just sings those words over and over in varying degrees of pitch while his celebrity guest fusses with an audience member!
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
Barbara Walters talks Lindsay's 20/20 cancellation
For her part, Lohan took a few handfuls of mousse and went to town with one lucky guy's hair, eventually fashioning it into a foamy fauxhawk before an exhausted Fallon passed out and she self-consciously made her way off the stage.
Perhaps Fallon was returning the favor after Lohan wouldn't let him dine alone when they ran into each other at a New York restaurant in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Lindsay's Liz &Dick producer: "It was a challenge"
Either way, it was a good way for her to ease back into the spotlight--the flattering kind, anyway--as she kicks off her press tour for "Liz &Dick," which premieres Nov. 25 on Lifetime.
"I want to say thank you to the great Lindsay Lohan for helping us out!" Fallon said when they returned from commercial. "She's awesome."


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Artist Jeff Thompson received a Rhizome commission in 2012 for his project Computers on Law & Order, for which he watched every episode of the long-running television series and took screenshots of all the computers. Thompson will present an illustrated lecture based on the project this Saturday, Feb 1 at 4pm at the Museum of the Moving Image, followed by a discussion with Law & Order graphic designer Kevin Raper. In this article, he shares some of his findings.
In the fall of 1990, a television program about crime, police investigation, and criminal trials named Law & Order aired for the first time. The show eventually ended in 2010, tied with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action television show at 20 seasons and 456 episodes.[1] With its unique (and consistent) style and trademark "dun-dun!" sound, Law & Order has generated several spin-offs and can likely be found playing at any hour of the day somewhere on cable.[2]


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Study: Parents More Influential Than Schools in Academic Success
Parents who want their children to succeed academically in school have more influence over that outcome than the schools themselves, according to a study by researchers from three universities.
"The effort that parents are putting in at home in terms of checking homework, reinforcing the importance of school, and stressing the importance of academic achievement is ultimately very important to their children's academic achievement," Dr. Toby Parcel, professor of sociology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. and a co-author of the study, told Education Week.
To arrive at their findings, researchers used the National Education Longitudinal Study data to evaluate social capital at home and at school. Parcel said her group evaluated results from 10,000 12th graders, taking into account their composite test scores in math, reading, science, and history to measure achievement levels.
Researchers compared measures of "family social capital" and "school social capital," discovering that even in schools that had low social capital, students were more likely to excel if their family social capital scores were high.
Measures of family social capital included:
• Does the parent check the student's homework?
• Does the parent attend school meetings?
• Does the parent attend school events?
• How much trust does the parent have in the child?
• How often do students report discussing school programs, activities, and classes with parents?
"In part what's going on is that, when the children's parents are engaged in those ways, then the children pick up on it. They think, 'School is important. My parents think it's important,' and that increases their attachment to education, which translates into better achievement," Parcel said.
To measure school social capital, which is defined as a school's ability to serve as a positive environment for learning, the researchers evaluated:
• Student participation in extracurricular activities;
• Whether the school contacted parents;
• The level of teacher morale;
• The level of conflict between teachers and administrators;
• Whether teachers responded to individual student needs; and
• An overall measure of school environment that tapped delinquency, absenteeism, and violence.
Parcel and co-authors Dr. Mikaela Dufur, of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and Kelly Troutman, a Ph.D. student at the University of California-Irvine, reported their findings in "Does Capital at Home Matter More than Capital at School?: Social Capital Effects on Academic Achievement," which was published online Sept. 5 by the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.


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Set in the heart of the Saar-Hunsrück nature reserve, Weiskirchen boasts a mild, stimulating climate, rolling forests and incredibly pure air.
A therapeutic climate is a natural gift promoting health and well-being. Taking active physical exercise such as walking is the best way to maximise the air's therapeutic effects.
The journey is the destination
Walking in the fresh air in Wieskirchen is certified as beneficial and the resort has the distinction of being a premium class climatic health resort. There are even specially designed routes on the Saar-Hunsrück Trail for climatic fitness through walking and other forms of exercise. Gentle climbs, flat stretches and forest trails combine to provide the best possible stamina training.
Wellness for mind, body and soul
An excellent extra incentive is the prospect of visiting the Vitalis swimming centre with its fitness pool, children's pool, massage pool and 200m² sauna suite. From traditional beauty treatments to thalassotherapy and oriental ayurveda programmes, the attached beauty salon offers plenty to pamper mind, body and soul.
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It's all about the gown. I was thinking this as I was in the little dressing room preparing for my MRI last week. Why do they have to make it such a challenge just to cover yourself? You put it on backward and then have to contort your body to find the tiny strings masquerading as belts and tie them behind your back. When you do find them they don't line up in any fashion that would constitute closure or one is always too short or cut off all together. Explain this to me. Are there nasty little patients who want to get back at those who come after them by finishing their tests and snipping off a bit of string before they throw it in the laundry bin? Where is the quality control in the hospitals when it comes to these gowns? Is there no one who's job is it to see if you have all your sets of strings? After you have locked away your clothes and spent twenty minutes unsuccessfully trying to wrap yourself in this cloth you resort to the only option-you walk out holding the thing together behind you hoping against hope the breeze you are feeling is not revealing too much.
One of my favorite workshops that I present as the health organizer is entitled "Dress for Your Test." I recommend that people leave all jewelry at home. For women, wearing easy fitting, elastic waist pants with loose legs and a button down shirt with raglan type sleeves is best. Men already will have a top and bottom and I suggest they wear loose sleeves and pant legs also. First of all, in case only half of you is being tested you get to keep part of your own clothes on. The loose legs make it easy to roll them up if your knee or ankle is being examined. The raglan sleeves allow for easy blood draws, blood pressure and placement of IV's. The button down shirt allows access to the chest. Slip on shoes with loose or no socks add to the ease of the undress. After all this…if you still have to get naked…back we go to the bane of my existence. All this time I thought I was the only one who cared until I read about the "Down with the Gown Initiative!!!"
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has provided funding to the College of Textiles of North Carolina State University to update the traditional hospital gown. Rosemary Gibson, a senior program officer with RWJ, started the initiative. Professor Traci Lamar of the college is leading a design team even as we speak to come up with a new prototype. These women are my two new best friends! But wait-even better. Years ago Hackensack University Medical Center hired Nicole Miller to create their gowns. Designer hospital gowns?!? Does it get better than that? The only problem there is you need to get sick in New Jersey.
They had a couple of focus groups to get opinions on what should be included in the design. I think they should ask us-the patients, and their caregivers. What style would be easy to get on, cover you completely yet allow easy access to various parts of your body? What type of fasteners should they create? Send me you ideas and I'll pass them on to my new BFFs.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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DOVER – Maple Suites, a senior independent living retirement community located at 30 Holiday Drive in Dover, will host a seminar on Saturday, January 19 at 11 am to help homeowners stage and price their home for selling.
The 45-minute presentation will be conducted by Louise Ducharme, Re/Max Realty One, a licensed Broker and Realtor in New Hampshire and Maine for the past 25 years. Louise's knowledge and experience make her uniquely qualified to discuss the things you want and need to know to be successful in today's real estate market.
Also participating in the seminar will be Patrice Sweet, Certified Interior Staging Specialist and owner of Stunning Spaces, LLC. Patrice has been staging homes in New Hampshire, Maine and beyond for the past 6 years and will share "must have" information about how to get a competitive advantage when selling.
If you are a homeowner considering putting your home on the market within the next year, you will learn the proper way to stage your home, how to price your home to sell, what's happening in the Seacoast housing market, the outlook for spring housing sales, the science and psychology of selling your home and quick enhancements that will add the most value to your home.
If you would like to attend the seminar, please RSVP to Maple Suites 603-742-8820. Please contact Maple Suites with any questions at 603-742-8820.


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On Friday evening at 8 p.m., I found myself sitting amongst a packed audience at Emory's very own Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, eagerly waiting "An Evening with Branford Marsalis" to begin, the kick-off show for the 2012-2013 Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series.
The evening marked the first of eight shows this year. The Candler Concert Series are incredible opportunities to see world-famous performers showcase their talents right on our campus.
Branford Marsalis, the lead saxophonist, is not only a well-known musician, but he is also a Tony Award-nominated composer and a three-time Grammy Award winner. The famous jazz quartet included Branford Marsalis on saxophone, Joey Calderazzo on the piano, Eric Revis on bass and Justin Faulkner on the drums.
The quartet tuned their instruments, and Marsalis stepped up to the microphone to welcome the crowd. He threw out a few well-received jokes, setting a light-hearted mood in the theater. Afterwards, the jazz quartet began their performance with a riveting piece called "The Mighty Sword," written by Marsalis.
Any lingering sereneness departed from the audience, as the unpredictable and wild nature that is jazz filled the room.
Each instrument in the quartet – the sharp notes of the piano, the deep bass, the taps of the drums, the piercing melody of the saxophone – was absolutely essential to the performance.
The musicians played as if their lives depended on it as if they were possessed by the music itself.
During the show, each musician had his fair share of solos, Marsalis being the star performer. Each solo brought the audience to its feet in applause because of its originality and difficulty.
Marsalis paused after one song to speak to the audience.
"One of the hardest things you can do without words, with instruments, is to create emotions," he said. However, that night the Branford Marsalis Quartet impressively communicated emotions with their remarkable skills.
The quartet proceeded to play the powerful song, "As summer into Autumn Slips," written by Calderazzo.
Marsalis said Calderazzo wrote the song to describe Calderazzo's emotions while his friend was dying of cancer. The poignancy and depth of the song was moving.
Watching the musicians' exaggerated movements as they played their instruments, feet tapping, bodies moving and mouths humming, pulled all those watching into the music. Admiration was written on the faces of the audience members.
The next Candler Concert Series will take place on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. Gil Shaham will be performing on the violin.
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Have you ever had those kind of days in which you find yourself already at work, dressed for your work day and 2 hours into sitting at your desk, you decide to look down to make sure that your shoes match? And that your clothes coordinate.
Come on... I can't be the only one! Okay, maybe so.
There has been so much going on here lately that I hardly know where to begin to try an catch up. Maybe you can guess where this is going... YES! Bullet-point recap!! Sweet!
[edited to add: okay, so I can't find actual bullet points on here soooo... looks like hyphens will do!]
- One week ago today, we came home from a week long visit to various family members in Florida. The first half of our trip was spent with my grandmother while the latter was with my in-laws. For 7 straight days, our days were full, our kids were napless wonders and we were all spoiled rotten. A great vacation indeed! I will do my best to follow with pictures and a separate vacation post soon.
- Over vacation, that little Lincoln of mine became an explosion of energy, eagerness and enthusiasm. Maybe it was the favorable climate, maybe it was break from our routine or maybe it's because he's come upon a burst of maturing. Whatever it is, he is ever-complex and I look forward to telling you all about him in a future post.
- The saying is true: sometimes you have to take the good with the bad. This winter has found us safe, happy, mostly healthy and continually blessed. For this I am thankful. One who didn't bear the wintertime and (geriatric) life in general was our dog, Keegan. Keegan was laid to rest the week prior to our vacation. I'm pretty sure that a follow up post about him is necessary as well.
- In other random ramblings: I registered Elaina for Kindergarten. My truck (we bought new) hit the 100,000 mile mark at (almost) 7 years old. I ordered the most expensive vacuum cleaner of my life - a Dyson - which I am so anxious to fall in love with. The kids and I are leaving Eric behind this weekend to spend a night at my brother's house; our fun-line-up will blow my little kiddies minds! I can't wait! With a much needed break from our snow-filled state, our weather has finally hit a breaking point and I've already begun my psychotic- decrapification from my house - A.K.A.: Spring cleaning meets crack. We've gotten new furniture for Lincoln's bedroom and a full sized bed is being made. Within a few short months, I hope to have his bedroom transformed into a big-boy room. The most obvious reminder that my last baby is growing up and won't want to sleep in a crib until he's 7. Where does the time go???
Speaking of time, where do you suppose I am going to find the time to sit down to write all of these follow up stories? Has anyone discovered a way of making time stand still? Oh, and not have to get tired. <-- very important!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
SO much.
Have you ever had those kind of days in which you find yourself already at work, dressed for your work day and 2 hours into sitting at your desk, you decide to look down to make sure that your shoes match? And that your clothes coordinate.
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Welcome to the San Diego BMW Meet
Last Saturday of every Month at 6:00-8:00 PM, unless posted otherwise
Creekside Market Place
585 Grand Ave, San Marcos, CA 92078
First aisle, closest to the Grand Avenue/Creekside Pl intersection
This is a monthly BMW meet for San Diego North County. All BMW Enthusiasts are welcome regardless of what you drive. Old, new, modded, stock, and even non-BMW's are welcome as well. It is easily located off the 78 on San Marcos Blvd and Grand Avenue. 1st aisle closest to Grand Avenue and Creekside Place. It's between Hobby Lobby and T-Mobile. Please do not park at In N Out.
Please feel free to share this event to friends and fellow BMW enthusiasts. Contact me if are lost, have questions, or suggestions that are not covered on this post.
760 274 4229 - Christian
If you use facebook please "like" our page so I can better communicate with you in the future: https://www.facebook.com/SanDiegoBMWMeet/
And join our Chat and Market place group to better interact with other members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SanDiegoBMWMeet/


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Councilman to report on discussions with UPMC over hospital
January 13, 2009
Kraus believes UPMC may
keep more services in S.S.
Councilman Bruce Kraus has called a Town Meeting for Wednesday, Jan. 14, 7 p.m. at the South Side Market House, to report to the community on discussions the councilman and State Senator Jay Costa Jr., and State Reps. Chelsa Wagner and Harry Readshaw have had with UPMC officials on plans to close UPMC South Side.
The local officials met with UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff and UPMC Vice-President for Government Relations Robert Kennedy in December over plans to close the South Side hospital and move its operations to UPMC Mercy. The health system announced plans in June to renovate UPMC Mercy and relocate rehabilitation beds to UPMC Mercy "or other UPMC hospitals."
In an email in June, Elizabeth B. Concordia, executive vice president of UPMC, told employees that UPMC will move in-patient services to UPMC Mercy in about a year, but will continue to offer ambulatory services including an urgent care center, physicians' offices, imaging and ambulatory surgery in South Side for the next three to five years.
Nancy Magee, president of UPMC Magee, and Will Cook, president of UPMC Mercy, have attended several community meetings to explain plans for the consolidation and closing of South Side's hospital, most recently in December at a South Side Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
At the luncheon Ms. Magee said among the considerations for closing UPMC South Side and consolidating its facilities at UPMC Mercy was that area residents are choosing to go somewhere else rather that South Side.
"Mercy has more primary in-patients from this area than South Side did," she stated. According to the health system's statistics, patients from South Pittsburgh go to Mercy 23 percent of the time opposed to going to South Side only 15 percent of the time.
"The patient goes where the doctor tells them to," she said.
Hospital officials closed one in-patient unit last August and another the first of this year, but the services most used by patients, diagnostic imaging, laboratory and ambulatory surgery units have remained for now. They plan to transition the emergency room, which services nearly 23,000 patients a year, to an urgent care center operating for approximately 15 hours a day.
Mr. Cook told those attending the chamber luncheon that he is looking at moving some of the out-patient services from Mercy to South Side. In addition, he said they have commissioned a traffic study to look at the time it will take for patients and ambulances to get to Mercy, a parking analysis of the hospital, instituted valet parking and are doing a security assessment at the hospital on the Bluff.
In response to the announced closing of the hospital Mr. Kraus has been collecting letters of support from not only public officials, but residents of the South Side hospital's service area. In his meeting with the health system official, the councilman brought more than 600 letters with him.
After the December meeting with Mr. Romoff, the councilman said that he was hopeful that some hospital services would remain in South Side. He said that he came out of the meeting with the impression that there was "room for conversation" about closing the hospital and that "it was not a done deal."
The councilman said the December meeting was just the first in a series to discuss issues related to the closing of the hospital. Among those issues the councilman still wants to discuss are: the continued access to health care for area families, transportation challenges for area employees of UPMC and how the loss of a major employer may affect the local economy.
Mr. Kraus is concerned that the loss of more than 700 jobs could increase foreclosures in South Pittsburgh, particularly in the Hilltop communities. He said that vacant properties are already a problem on the Hilltop and if local residents lose their ability to work at the hospital it could increase mortgage foreclosures now estimated at 1,800 in those communities.
UPMC officials have said that out-patient services will remain in South Side as long as they are being used. Councilman Kraus said he wants a firm commitment on keeping the out-patient services in South Side calling it a "deal breaker" if the hospital officials decline to commit.
In addition to Mr. Kraus, State Reps. Readshaw and Wagner plan to be at the Town Meeting on January 14 at the Market House. State Sen. Costa will be in Harrisburg and is unable to attend. Representing UPMC will be Robert Kennedy, Nancy Magee and Will Cook.


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Gaming is a phenomenon which is scoring big in the media industry. A lot of effort is being put into it with respect to design, development and time. It has become an area that is circulating a lot of money and more and more people are getting hooked on to playing games. Conventional wisdom tells us that gaming is fun. True that! However, gaming has moved beyond that and it is starting to have other uses than just entertaining people. For example, businesses are incorporating games into their marketing activities as a means to connect with consumers and potential consumers.
A recent example that backs up the former claim is a company that operates in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) sector – Reckitt Benckiser (RB). It is a company which has traditionally dedicated its efforts to develop products for daily use. However, as part of its awareness drive, the company has sought refuge in gaming. The latest game it has incorporated in its awareness campaign is called Profile DeRBy. Essentially, it is a psychometric test based on statistical probability which aims to provide an understanding to people regarding what careers choices they should make. This includes students, university graduates and people who are seeking jobs in today's fierce job market. The company's blog states the game is "fun, a bit cheeky and creative. It is a profiling tool disguised as a game to provide practical feedback to such people" about their respective professional personalities. Check out this video:
The example above is clear substantiation of the fact that gaming is increasingly getting involved into more practical uses. It is turning into a critical marketing tool and an important consumer engagement driver. The dilemma that remains is what fate traditional marketing would adopt given the technological development.
If you are a hardcore gamer, you think you need to know your professional traits, Profile DeRBy is a good place to start.
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A homeless man was taken into custody Monday afternoon when he was found with a BB gun near the route President Barack Obama's motorcade was taking, according to police in Connecticut.
Police said Tuesday that Joseph Stravinskas, 27, was shooting at cans behind a house about half an hour before the presidential motorcade came by.
Obama was in Connecticut to deliver an address at the University of Hartford that called on Congress to bring new gun control propoals to a vote.
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Police had originally said that a man had been standing at an intersection where President Obama's motorcade passed by and was arrested after pulling out the BB gun.
But on Tuesday, police clarified details of the incident, saying that Stravinskas had no connection to the motorcade.
Police from several departments were securing the motorcade route when a Simsbury detective heard a noise at 5:50 p.m. from the back of a home a few miles away from the university, and went to see if someone was hiding in the woods, police said.
The detective found Stravinskas with what appeared to be a rifle, aiming at cans propped as targets and ordered him to drop the weapon, police said.
When Stravinskas turned, he dropped his aim, and ultimately complied with police orders and was taken into custody.
Police seized the gun and determined it was a pellet rifle, police said.
Stravinskas told police he was homeless and his actions had nothing to do with the presidential motorcade.
Secret Service also spoke with Stravinskas and officials determined that his actions had nothing to do with the motorcade, which came by at 6:20 p.m. without incident.
Stravinskas was charged with breach of peace in the second degree, threatening in the second degree and interfering with an officer.
He was held on a $15,000 bond and is due in court on Tuesday.
President Obama was in Connecticut Monday afternoon to meet with families who lost loved ones during the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.


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Prove that for every natural number $n$,$$\left\lfloor\left(\frac{7+\sqrt{37}}{2}\right)^n\right\rfloor$$ is divisible by $3$.
I found the problem in the book Winning Solutions. I do have a solution at hand which I was able to construct duly from the given hints: At first, take $a_n=\left(\frac{7+\sqrt{37}}{2}\right)^n+\left(\frac{7-\sqrt{37}}{2}\right)^n$ and then prove that $a_{n+2}=7a_{n+1}-3a_n$ which in turn, can be used to prove that $3\ |\ a_n-1$.The proof is complete once we can prove that $a_n-1=\left\lfloor\left(\frac{7+\sqrt{37}}{2}\right)^n\right\rfloor$.
Why would anyone think of coming up with such an ingenious recurrence? I am simply at a loss to understand the motivation behind the whole series of hints. They led me to a solution but I doubt I would have come up with it by myself.
Can anyone please show me a more natural proof?


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You'll be subjected to rolling commentary on innumerable aspects of the Gorsuch hearings. I prefer, as I often do, to address deeper aspects of our competing value systems that underlie the surface of our political battles. One is the human impact of our treatment of planet earth.
Human behavior is injuring our environment. But nature has ways of winning the battle. It turns out that our fertility is as fragile as the eagles' before DDT was banned, that endocrine disruptors and other environmental toxins are damaging our ability to reproduce – they're in our kitchens, pesticides and other purchases.[1] That can be a powerful counterattack against the human activity that is warming the globe. If we become infertile and our population plummets, America will become a sad, lonely, vulnerable place, and, quite likely, conquered by any healthier peoples left.
Nevertheless, I'm sick of making consequential arguments, to tell people that if we don't do this or that, bad things will happen. I think the arguments I've been making are air tight. But the science floats over people's heads. A women, well-enough educated to know better, told me that she chose not to think about the environment because it was too big to deal with. Her comment made clear to me that reason doesn't reach nearly enough people. Science won't solve anything unless we accept and act on it.
So let's address the moral issue. No one, no business, no company or corporation has the right to put toxins in the environment, chemicals that can make it impossible for people to reproduce or kill or maim those of us alive, or make us produce deformed and handicapped children – no one and no company has that right. And they don't have the right to change the subject, throw smoke in our eyes, saying something else is the problem when they aren't bothering to check. We've had enough lies. This is not a football game where deception is a winning strategy. In human life, deception is sinful, immoral, totally unacceptable. Taking risks with other people's lives and making excuses for it is criminal.
If there is an economic problem, then, as many labor leaders have suggested for decades, let's share the work, or create other jobs that don't do damage – jobs aren't an excuse for hurting people. Hurting people isn't a job; it's a crime. People aren't entitled to work at criminal enterprises.
The Cabinet and the President and the Members of Congress and the state and local governments aren't entitled to commit the crime of murder by poisoning the environment. Pro-lifers and liberals should be united on the environmental front given the enormity of the killing, of adults, children, fetuses and sperm. We've all seen multiple films with populations at risk and the starship or other craft working hard to prevent destruction of civilizations. The authors of those stories were trying to portray the immorality of destroying civilizations, and they were warning us of the likelihood that we would face that problem.
How many of us are moral enough to deal with this issue? Isn't it criminal to support the rape of the air, land, food and water that give us life? Isn't it criminal to carelessly poo-poo the dangers? How many of our corporate and elected officials are criminals?
Those with so little respect for the lives of fellow human beings must repent, stop and stop those who do, immediately and completely.
— This commentary was broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, March 21, 2017.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/are-your-sperm-in-trouble.html.


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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (IPA: ; born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003. He is also the chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan previously served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences. Erdoğan was also a semi-professional footballer from 1969 to 1982.
Erdoğan was elected Mayor of Istanbul in the local elections of 27 March 1994. He was banned from office and sentenced to a prison term for reciting text (""The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers....") from a poem during a public address in the province of Siirt on 12 December 1997. The poem was allegedly quoted from a book published by a state enterprise and one that had been recommended to teachers by the Ministry of Education, but the lines recited do not appear in the original poem. After six months in prison, Erdoğan established the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on August 14, 2001. From its first year, the AK Party became the largest publicly-supported political movement in Turkey. In the general election of 2002 the AK Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, forming the first single-party government for 19 years.
As prime minister, Erdoğan implemented numerous reforms. 45 years after Turkey signed an Association Agreement with the EU, the negotiations for Turkey's accession to the EU started during Erdoğan's tenure. Parallel to this, inflation, which had for decades adversely affected the country's economy, was brought under control and the Turkish Lira regained its former prestige through the elimination of six zeros.


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Sam's Drunk Dog wrote:Froggy wrote:Using ezpass in a cash lane. There are open ezpass lanes... Quit gumming up the works for thecash folk
I'll do this if no one is in the cash lane, the EZPass lanes are all to the left and my exit is on the right soon after going through the toll both. Also, I don't understand why everyone doesn't have EZ Pass by now.
because I use a toll road maybe twice a year


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Earlier in the year, iContact conducted a survey of small and mid-sized business marketers. Here are eight great facts about email marketing demonstrating how the medium continues to grow in popularity and strength:
- Email's #1 purpose is to share: While email has commanding share of the marketing budget, it's also used to share. 92 percent of businesses say they use email to share information about new products or services; 90 percent said they use email to share news about their organization.
- SMB email list size: Businesses surveyed have an average of 3,489 email subscribers; about one-quarter of businesses have fewer than 1,000 subscribers while about one-fifth have more than 10,000 subscribers on their email marketing lists.
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The mission name is missing.
Not a bad little intro, it does the trick and with the new multiplayer lobby options you can easily add an option to disable.
Also the netting covering the vehicles and stuff was destroyed by the end of the mission
well the initial base I thought was over crowded. Too many playable slots.
we totally avoided the direct route by road
We did lay down one satchel at the station but never got credit for it. Do you need more then 1?
Don't forget to remove the french from the MP params settings.
As there are allready two options, number of revives and daytime, can I had a third one for intro skipping?!
I saw that... I tried "allowdamage false" for them, but they still go to the ground when you touch them... They're usefull just for the look of the base.
So you didn't see the interesting hidden objectives you can find on that route!
At least ten to destroy ALL buildings of power station, but perhaps i'll reduce the objective there to the destruction of just the 3 electric transformers...With the 1.03 patch, I noticed that the main building needs 3 times at least the charges needed before, even with a setdamage set to 0.9 in init, it's not interesting doing that job...
The mission didn't end when the objective was complete
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Al Pacino got so caught up in his love for Oscar Wilde's "Salome" that he staged a production of it, while simultaneously directing a film about the play, and a documentary about the author. The new trailer that just came out makes only a little more sense of things:
What the trailer doesn't explain is that Wilde's "Salome" is a retelling of the Biblical story of the woman who demanded the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as payment for doing the dance of the seven veils.
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And can we talk briefly about how Jessica Chastain came out of nowhere to star in seven films--"The Debt," "Tree of Life," "Take Shelter," "The Help," "Texas Killing Fields," "Coriolanus" and "Wilde Salome"--this year? Has this ever happened before? If Hollywood gave out a Rookie of the Year Award, they'd have to change its name to the Jessica Chastain Award.
Here's the synopsis from the film's website:
Referred to by actor/director Al Pacino as his most personal project ever, the unconventional feature documentary Wilde Salome invites audiences into Pacino's private world, as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde's acclaimed play Salome, Wilde himself and the birth of a rising star, in actress Jessica Chastain.
The film offers an unprecedented behind the scenes look at Pacino's odyssey. Pacino's raw exploration in Wilde Salome is one of obsession, determination, commitment and above all, passion. Wilde Salome is unlike any other documentary, a profound vision that explores religion, literature, politics, violence and sexuality from one of the world's greatest artists—writer, Oscar Wilde.
"Wilde Salome" will be showing at the Venice Film Festival. One can only assume that Al Pacino made "Jack & Jill" to pay for this--we just hope it was worth it.


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Most phones do not yet support Google's Camera2 API, and thus can only save compressed JPEG files. In addition, most devices use artificial edge-sharpening and noise reduction algorithms which further reduce the quality the resulting pictures by adding halos around high-contrast areas and an oil painting appearance to highly detailed areas.
This app disabled all those enhancements. JPEG quality is set to 100, artificial sharpening/edge enhancements are disabled, picture resolution is set to maximum and noise reduction is also disabled (but can be (re)enabled in the app) thus retaining more natural grain.
• Selectable (3) Histogram modes: Luma, RGB or both.
• Selectable ISO modes.
• Adjustable Exposure.
• Defeatable built-in sensor noise-reduction.
• Selectable Focus modes: Continuous AutoFocus or Touch to Focus.
• Orientation sensor updates Exif tag, can be locked.
• Shake detection.
• GPS data added to Exif tag.
No Twitter, Google+ or facebook integration.
No fisheye, cartoon or sepia filters.
* Due to the use of undocumented system calls, device compatibility CANNOT be guaranteed. The application may crash and/or some features me have no effect.
The app has been tested successfully on Samsung devices running ICS 4.0.2 and up. It may also work on a wider range of devices using CyanogenMod 9 and up.
* Pictures taken without noise reduction enabled may require retouching using an external app, especially with higher ISO settings. Processing on a PC can achieve far better results than the limited processing used in smartphones and tablets.
* Note: For devices using Marshmallow, a new permissions scheme has been added which this application does not yet fully support. As such, it will crash on launch.
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Women and youth-focused entrepreneurial initiatives were strong themes of the 2013 entries to the European Commission's European Enterprise Promotion Awards.
Women and youth-focused entrepreneurial initiatives were strong themes of the 2013 entries to the European Commission's European Enterprise Promotion Awards. This year, a new category, Supporting the Development of Green Markets and Resource Efficiency, was also introduced. One of the Commission's targets for the year 2020 is a 75% employment rate for women and men aged from 20 to 64. This will be achieved by getting more people into work, especially women, the young, older and low-skilled people and legal migrants. Every year, the European Enterprise Promotion Awards help inspire potential entrepreneurs by identifying and recognising Europe's most successful promoters of enterprise and entrepreneurship. The winners will be announced in November at a ceremony during a Small and Medium Sized Enterprises assembly in Vilnius.
European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, commented, "The creativity shown by these projects demonstrates exactly why harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit is so important in driving European business. We need to multiply these concrete success stories and make Europe more business-oriented and business-friendly."
Hundreds of projects from across Europe have already participated in national competitions for a chance to progress to compete at European level. Three projects awarded prizes at national level and which will be considered for prizes in the European Enterprise Promotion Awards explore the themes of:
Youth entrepreneurship
Studies show that students who receive entrepreneurship education are not only more likely to be employed, but also more likely to start their own companies. In Poland an initiative undertaken by the Municipality of Wrocław Economic Development Office involved the production and performance of a play entitled "The fairytale about Janek, the entrepreneur and his foolish brothers." This is the first educational tool in Poland in the form of a theatrical performance to address entrepreneurship that targets primary school pupils. In addition to the live audience, 60,000 pupils from 720 schools around the country viewed the performance online.
Female entrepreneurship
Women's entrepreneurial potential is a very much underexploited source of economic growth and new jobs. The fact that women only account for 34.4% of the self-employed in Europe suggests that they need more encouragement to become entrepreneurs. In the Slovak Guardian Angels for Female Entrepreneurs Project, mentors take female entrepreneurs under their wing and guide their first business steps, helping to deal with teething problems in their business careers. The project, organised by the National Agency for Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (NADSME), has aided 33 female entrepreneurs with the help of 14 mentors.
Green Markets and Resource Efficiency
The recycling industry is one of the most important providers of raw materials for European industries. Optimising waste recycling will increase the security of our external material supplies, create jobs and make financial savings. But out of 40 billion tonnes of waste generated annually in the EU, only about 40% is recycled. In Cyprus, Green Dot (Cyprus) Public Co Ltd has performed a household recycling collection since 2007 and has since grown to cover 85% of the population. Cypriots have responded positively to the service and the overall recycling rate has doubled from 2006 - 2012. The organisation created more than 200 new green jobs and allowed local recycling companies to grow and enhance their long term sustainability.
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The national competition winners will now go forward to compete in the pan-European Awards. The jury will review the entries and release a shortlist of the top entrants in each category to go forward to the final competition. The winners, including the Grand Jury Prize winner, will be announced at the European Enterprise Promotion Awards ceremony in November, which will take place during the SME Assembly in Vilnius, Lithuania on 25-26 November 2013.
The European Enterprise Promotion Awards showcases best entrepreneurship policies and practices, raises awareness of the added value of entrepreneurship and encourages and inspires potential entrepreneurs. Since 2006, the Awards have rewarded excellence at a national, regional and local level. Over 2 000 projects have entered since the awards were launched and together they have supported the creation of well over 10 000 new companies.
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Wrap your eyeballs around this one, why dontcha.
Ay caramba. The vertical split patch for screen is now my favoritest thing ever! That's one vertical split in screen, with a horizontal split on the right. Then the lower right area is further subdivided by dvtm, which means five applications are squished into one 800×600 area.
I understand it, the next version of screen will supposedly have integrated the patch, but in the mean time, it's well worth the effort to compile it. Crux users need only add a patching line to the standard port; Archers can tinker with the PKGBUILD and come up with the same thing. Ubuntunuts have this as a guide, although I have only built it in Crux so far.
I wonder how many smaller windows I can reasonably create and manage before. … 😯


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One of the two murderers of soldier Lee Rigby has launched an appeal against his whole-life prison term, the Judicial Office confirmed today.
Michael Adebolajo was sentenced at the Old Bailey in February alongside Michael Adebowale, who was jailed for life with a minimum term of 45 years.
The pair were sentenced by Mr Justice Sweeney for butchering the 25-year-old father of one in broad daylight near Woolwich Barracks in south east London on May 22 last year.
Heartbroken relatives of Fusilier Rigby said "'justice has been served" after Adebolajo was given the whole-life term, which condemns him to die behind bars.
When announcing the sentences, Mr Justice Sweeney told Adebolajo and Adebowale: "You each converted to Islam some years ago. Thereafter you were radicalised and each became an extremist, espousing a cause and views which, as has been said elsewhere, are a betrayal of Islam and of the peaceful Muslim communities who give so much to our country."
He went on: " You decided between you, and in order to advance your extremist cause, to murder a soldier in public in broad daylight and to do so in a way that would generate maximum media coverage, including getting yourselves killed by armed officers who would be bound to attend the scene in the aftermath of the murder - thereby expecting that you would become martyrs and each gain a place in paradise."
Adebolajo and Adebowale chose the young soldier as their victim because he was wearing a Help for Heroes hooded top, mowing him down in a car before hacking at his limp body with a meat cleaver and knives in an attempt to decapitate him.
Explaining his decision to give Adebolajo a whole-life term, the judge said the 29-year-old, who has two children and four stepchildren, was the leader of the murderous plot and had "no real prospect of rehabilitation".
However, 22-year-old Adebowale's younger age, mental health problems and "lesser role" meant that he escaped spending the rest of his natural life behind bars.
Whole-life terms came under the spotlight recently when leading judges at the Court of Appeal ruled that murderers who commit the most "heinous" of crimes can be sent to prison for the rest of their lives.
A specially-constituted court declared that sentencing judges can continue to impose " whole-life" tariffs in such cases.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said the court had held that the statutory scheme enacted by Parliament which enabled judges to pass whole-life orders was "entirely compatible" with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Sentencing in a number of high-profile criminal cases had been put on hold - including the terms to be handed out to Fusilier Rigby's murderers - pending the Court of Appeal's ruling, which was given in February.
The ruling followed a successful appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by murderers Jeremy Bamber, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore.
Last July the ECHR held that there had been a violation of Article 3 of the European on Human Rights - which relates to inhuman and degrading treatment - on the basis that whole-life orders were not "reducible".
The Strasbourg-based court did not say that whole-life sentences were incompatib e with the Convention, but that there had to be the possibility of a review at some stage and that current laws allowing for release in exceptional circumstances were unclear.
But the Court of Appeal judges ruled that the Grand Chamber was wrong when it reached a conclusion that the law of England and Wales did not clearly provide for "reducibility", saying that the domestic law "is clear as to 'possible exceptional release of whole-life prisoners'".
A power of review arose if there were "exceptional circumstances". An offender was required to demonstrate to the Secretary of State that, although a whole-life order was just punishment at the time the order was made, exceptional circumstances had arisen since.
The Secretary of State "must then consider whether such exceptional circumstances justify the release on compassionate grounds".
Lord Thomas concluded: "In our judgment, the law of England and Wales therefore does provide to an offender 'hope' or the 'possibility' of release in exceptional circumstances which render the just punishment originally imposed no longer justifiable."
On whole-life orders in general, Lord Thomas said the Court of Appeal did not read the Grand Chamber's judgment "as in any way casting doubt on the fact that there are crimes that are so heinous that just punishment may require imprisonment for life".
Those currently serving whole-life terms in England and Wales include Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who tortured and murdered children along with accomplice Myra Hindley, and serial killer Rosemary West.


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Avatars 2 and 3 are going to happen.
Oscar winning director James Cameron has agreed to make a pair of sequels to last year's 3-D blockbuster, which is the highest-grossing movie of all time, announced Fox films bosses Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman. The blustery movie maker has cleared his schedule to make the films his next two projects, with the first one due out in 2014 and the next a year later. The announcement was first reported by Nikki Finke, of Deadline.com.
"Avatar was conceived as an epic work of fantasy – a world that audiences could visit, across all media platforms, and this moment marks the launch of the next phase of that world, said Cameron, who will produce the movie with Jon Landau. "I'm looking forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imaginations can run wild."
"Avatar" took in nearly $2.8 billion in worldwide box office. It is also the top-selling Blu-ray disc of all time.
Cameron had been exploring a "Cleopatra" film which would star Angeline Jolie, but the "Avatar" announcement would appear to put those plans on hold.
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Filming the next two "Avatars" may not be as difficult, with the first one under his belt. In an interview with the LA Times last April, Cameron laid out what his challenge would be.
"To do what we did before at half the price and in half the time," Cameron said. "We know our methodology works. We also know it took two years to come up with. It didn't even become efficient until the last two months of the production. So we were four years into a project before we had this machine running smoothly.
"Now, none of that has anything to do with coming up with a great story or great characters or great new settings and so on. That all is a given."
Selected Reading: Deadline.com, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times.


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I follow the advice of The Bible - no mirrors, clocks, or music out there.
Anyway, I'm rambling about this because last week I received an email from Dr. Stingray, who says he's an internist in Florida, commenting on office decor issues:
"Years ago I subleased from a neurologist, Dr. Sousaphone. He only saw Alzheimer's patients, and believed in having an office that would rival any art museum.
"One day, for whatever reason, he decided to install a fountain in the lobby. This wasn't some little desktop thing, but a fairly large contraption of copper and stone. He thought its gentle sounds would relax his demented patients.
"Unfortunately, it was more relaxing then he'd anticipated. 2 days after it's debut an elderly, demented man (to his wife's horror) walked over to it, unzipped, and drained his bladder into the relaxing waters. Another disinhibited gentleman thought this was a good idea and promptly joined him.
"This performance stunned Dr. Sousaphone (not to mention my waiting patients) who hadn't anticipated the fountain's effect on demented males with enlarged prostates. After they cleaned the fountain he had a sign installed that said "Please do not urinate in the fountain. It is for decoration only" (Dr. Grumpy comments: Wow! If you saw that sign in your doctor's lobby, what would you think?).
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2013-05-21 08:59:41 -0500
- Update Changelog for 2.0.2
James D. Callahan III:
- Check for nil button.
- Still adding locations for battle pets, but everything added with 5.3 is in.
- Retiring old Arena Tournament pet, and adding new one to commented out list for 5.3
- 5.3 mounts added in, commented out
- Fixing locations of some of the Battle pets, continuing adding co-ords
- Golden Civet & Kitten - pushing cuz I forgot to import localizations.
- 5.3 pet work (commented out). Mob info added - no new mobs, so not commented out.
- New 5.3 vendor (commented out)
- - Red Primal Raptor is in game. - Add info on Direhorn drops
- Changelog!
- Brewfest Ram is for all intents & purposes, retired.
John Pasula:
- Update all missing localizations.
- Update L[SHIFT_CLICK] to make more sense.
- Add binding flag to Ghastly Charger.
- Show Known -> Known
- Add text for GROUP_TOGGLE_FORMAT.
- Add missing saved variables for different Acquire Methods. Will fix it being toggled on log in, and also the global acquisition toggle.
- Add BoP flag to Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent
- 2 more pets updated
- Get those Pandaria waypoints working
- Found the last collectable that was mis-flagged, resulting in it not appearing. Worked on filters a bit.
- Fixing some flags, etc
- Filters fixed.
- Fix a bug where the filter wasn't added at all. Surprised no one ran into it.
- Continuation of addition of info to database.
- Quick push for localization I forgot last night
- Continue adding info for new Battle pets location feature - zone, level of pet in zone, co-ords. Added 5.3 pets, commented out at end.
James D. Callahan III:
- Fix for Waypoints (if we ever add them!)
- temporarily comment out requiredfaction lines, adding location data for a few pets, update level ranges for several battle pets
James D. Callahan III:
- Hide and release the acquire tooltip and clear the selected line when switching tabs. Also, commit a bunch of other files since the OSX WoW launcher insists on changing my AddOn file permissions.
- Made pet_prototype:AddZoneLocation() actually add and display the locations/coords.
- Removed unnecessary pet:AddWorldDrop() calls.
- Zooey Snake is found in Kun-Lai Summit - not Zul'Drak.
- Whitespace cleanup.
- Kill the typo!
- Cleanup.
John Pasula:
- Update the Zandalari Raptors.
- Fix some 5.2 battle pet rarities.